1%: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality

As part of this year’s Athens Photo Festival, we are presenting a partial display of thegroup exhibition titled: “1%: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality”. This project is aresponse to the exploding gap between poverty and wealth in the world. The growinginequality between contradictory life conditions is visualized in contemporarydocumentary shots by famous photographers. The images, reminiscent of the privatecollections of great art patrons, allow a variety of approaches to the subject, while theystimulate a debate on this phenomenon: The richest one percent of the world’spopulation owns almost half of total assets.